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database

[dey-tuh-beys] / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
NOUN
collection of data
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To investigate, the researchers analyzed information from more than 270,000 participants in the UK Biobank, a large research database containing health and genetic data from people in the United Kingdom.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Burgos then looked up the woman’s driver’s license picture on the DMV database, which several officers told internal affairs probably violated department policy, according to the report.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

It took a Wall Street analyst noticing something odd in a database to surface the halted research.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Nepal police began collecting DNA samples from relatives this week to build a database for identifying bodies, while families overseas will be able to submit samples in their home countries.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

She knelt and kissed his ring, and her DNA was read and was transmitted to the Scythedom’s immunity database.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

So her personal information, spread over multiple government databases, is messy, incomplete, often contradictory and may even have been inadvertently combined with others who share her name.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Contact details, vehicle registrations and postcodes were stolen in the breach that appears to have accessed databases containing wi-fi log in and car parking details.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Miyashita asked Weber, who was then at Carleton University, along with two undergraduate students at the University of Ottawa, to search published research and museum databases for photographs of developing snakes.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

The numbers can be found in federal databases and are tracked, for example, by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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